Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Cover Reveals - Young Adult (75)

A teenage misfit named
Hawthorn Creely inserts herself in the investigation of missing person
Lizzie Lovett, who disappeared mysteriously while camping with her
boyfriend. Hawthorn doesn't mean to interfere, but she has a pretty
crazy theory about what happened to Lizzie. In order to prove it, she
decides to immerse herself in Lizzie's life. That includes taking her
job... and her boyfriend. It's a huge risk — but it's just what Hawthorn
needs to find her own place in the world.

Ultra-high-achiever
Viviana Rabinovich-Lowe has always had a plan—and no room to be
anything less than perfect. But her quest for perfection comes toa
screeching halt when her boyfriend leaks racy pictures of her to the
entire school. Making matters worse, her parents are getting divorced
and now her perfect family is falling apart. For the first time, Viv
feels like a complete and utter failure.

Then she gets a job
working at the community pool, where she meets a new group of friends
who know nothing about her past. That includes Evan, a gorgeous guy who
makes her want to do something she never thought she’d do again: trust.
For the first time in her life, Viv realizes she can finally be whoever
she wants. But who is that? While she tries to figure it out, she learns
something they never covered in her AP courses: that it’s okay to be
less than perfect, because it’s our imperfections that make us who we
are.

When Tea accidentally
resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from
the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that
she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her
community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone
witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training.

In
her new home, Tea puts all her energy into becoming an asha — one who
can wield elemental magic. But dark forces are approaching quickly, and
in the face of danger, Tea will have to overcome her obstacles…and make a
powerful choice.

A teenage girl
switches identities with a stranger and pulls off a long-term scam in
this smart, sarcastic thriller perfect for fans of Ally Carter.

Don’t
you trust me? I mean, look at me. Blond, blue-eyed, the very image of
innocence. Pretty enough, if you care about that kind of thing. I don’t.

But
would a normal person switch identities with some wet mess of a girl at
the airport, just to get her to stop bawling about being separated from
her loser boyfriend and sent to live with some distant relatives? Nope,
she wouldn’t. Yet I did. I’m not as normal as you think. And you’ll
just have to trust me on that.

When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her
family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal
century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about
the past... and the present.

Nearly one hundred years earlier, a
misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into
a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a
hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a
painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in
order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns.

Through
intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham’s
lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to
blazing life and raises important question about the complex state of US
race relations – both yesterday and today.

In order to save her
family’s farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a
factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading
conditions and contempt for her minority (Uyghur) background. Sustained
by her bond with other Uyghur girls, Roshen is resolved to endure all to
help her family and ultimately her people. A workplace survival story,
this gritty, poignant account focuses on a courageous teen and
illuminates the value—and cost—of freedom.

In Our Own Private
Universe, fifteen-year-old Aki Hunter knows she’s bisexual, but up until
now she’s only dated guys—and her best friend, Lori, is the only person
she’s out to. When she and Lori set off on a four-week youth-group
mission trip in a small Mexican town, it never crosses Aki’s mind that
there might be anyone in the group she’d be interested in dating. But
that all goes out the window when Aki meets Christa.

Told in second person,
Sad Perfect is the story of a girl and the unique eating disorder that
consumes her, the boy she loves, and the monster that tries to keep her
from recovery. It’s about imperfect families, finding love and support
in the most unexpected places, and discovering the internal strength to
conquer anything.

In this contemporary retelling of The Canterbury Tales,
a group of teens on a bus ride to Washington, DC, each tell a
story—some fantastical, some realistic, some downright scandalous—in
pursuit of the ultimate prize: a perfect score.

Jeff boards the bus for the Civics class trip to Washington, DC, with a few things on his mind: -Six hours trapped with his classmates sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. -He somehow ended up sitting next to his ex-best friend, who he hasn’t spoken to in years. -He still feels guilty for the major part he played in pranking his teacher, and the trip’s chaperone, Mr. Bailey. -And his best friend Cannon, never one to be trusted and banned from the trip, has something “big” planned for DC.

But
Mr. Bailey has an idea to keep everyone in line: each person on the bus
is going to have the chance to tell a story. It can be fact or fiction,
realistic or fantastical, dark or funny or sad. It doesn’t matter. Each
person gets a story, and whoever tells the best one will get an
automatic A in the class.

But in the middle of all the
storytelling, with secrets and confessions coming out, Jeff only has one
thing on his mind—can he live up to the super successful story
published in the school newspaper weeks ago that convinced everyone that
he was someone smart, someone special, and someone with something to
say.

In her debut novel, Kim Zarins breathes new life into Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
in a fresh and contemporary retelling that explores the dark realities
of high school, and the subtle moments that bring us all together.

When an
insecure teen starts impersonating someone else, her life spirals
dangerously out of control in a realistic, relatable novel about finding
yourself—and discovering your true friends.

Leah
Lobermier dreams of becoming a doctor, but it’s hard to stay focused on
getting good grades when boys make oinking sounds at her in school and
her mother spends every night on the couch with a bottle of wine. Leah’s
skinny and popular "friends," Kristy and Corinne, aren’t much better
and can hardly be counted on for support. When the girls convince a
handsome older man to buy them beer, Leah takes his phone number and
calls him, pretending to be Kristy—coy and confident—and they develop a
relationship, talking and texting day after day. But as the lie she
created grows beyond her control, can Leah put a stop to things before
she—or Kristy—is seriously hurt?

Leah Roberts’s life has
never been the same since her brother died ten years ago. Her mother
won’t stop drinking, her father can’t let go of his bitter anger, and
Leah herself has a secret she’s told no one: Sasquatch are real, and
she’s been watching a trio of them in the woods behind her house for
years.

Everything changes when Leah discovers that among the
Sasquatch lives a teenager. This alluring, enigmatic boy has no memory
of his past and can barely speak, but Leah can’t shake his magnetic
pull. Gradually, Leah’s life entwines with his, providing her the escape
from reality she never knew she needed.

But when Leah’s two
worlds suddenly collide in a deadly showdown, she uncovers a shocking
truth as big and extraordinary as the legends themselves, one that could
change her life forever.

From debut author Jennifer Park comes a
haunting and luminous exploration of love, grief, and the dangerous
lies that can bind—or break—us.

It all started with a
harmless prank. But now high school junior (and resident stoner)
Lawrence Barry is one step away from reform school unless he
participates in a mentorship program. His mentee? Spencer Knudsen, a
Norwegian exchange student with Spock-like intelligence but the social
skills of the periodic table.

Then disaster strikes—Homecoming
week. When someone dressed as the school Viking mascot starts destroying
the fairy tale–inspired floats, all suspicion falls on Lawrence. Add to
the mix a demon Goth girl named Zoe, a Renaissance LARPing group, an
overzealous yearbook editor, and three vindictive chickens, and Lawrence
soon realizes that his situation may be a little out of control. But
Spencer seems to have some answers. In fact, Spencer may be the one
friend Lawrence never knew he needed.

As
a child, she fought the invaders who murdered her parents and snatched
her as a raid prize. She fought for her place next to Thyra, the
daughter of the Krigere Chieftain. She fought for her status as a
warrior in her tribe: blood and victory are her way of life. But the day
her Krigere cross the great lake and threaten the witch queen of the
Kupari, everything changes.

Cursed by the queen with fire and
ice, Ansa is forced to fight against an invisible enemy—the dark magic
that has embedded itself deep in her bones. The more she seeks to hide
it, the more dangerous it becomes. And with the Krigere numbers
decimated and the tribe under threat from the traitorous brother of the
dead Chieftain, Ansa is torn between her loyalty to the Krigere, her
love for Thyra, and her own survival instincts.

With her world in
chaos and each side wanting to claim her for their own, only one thing
is certain: unless Ansa can control the terrible magic inside her,
everything she’s fought for will be destroyed.

Book 3 in the
breathtaking sci-fi space saga inspired by astrology that will stun fans
of the Illuminae Files and Starbound series.

One final secret stands between Rho and the enemy. But will the devastating truth be enough to destroy her first?

Rho,
the courageous visionary from House Cancer, lost nearly everything when
she exposed and fought against the Marad, a mysterious terrorist group
bent on destroying balance in the Zodiac Galaxy. Now, the Marad has
disappeared without a trace, and an uneasy peace has been declared.

But
Rho is suspicious. She believes the Master is still out there in some
other form. And looming over all are the eerie visions of her mother,
who died many years ago, but is now appearing to Rho in the stars.

When
news of a stylish new political party supported by her best friend,
Nishi, sends Rho on another journey across the galaxy, she uses it as an
opportunity to hunt the hidden master and seek out information about
her mother. And what she uncovers sheds light on the truth–but casts
darkness upon the entire Zodiac world.

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